Camp BizSmart is pleased to announce the First Place Teams from the 2019 Summer US, North American Entrepreneurship Workshops. Teams of aspiring young change makers age 11 – 15, selected from three great product innovation business cases created with very current and in the news companies: PsiBands, Ekso Bionics and Drobots. Camp BizSmart teams at Santa Clara University and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, designed entirely unique new products for the companies, wrote a business plan, and made an investor pitch to Silicon Valley Sharks at Microsoft. See business cases here:https://campbizsmart.org/our-camps/business-cases/ For nine days future world shakers learn and practice valuable real-world skills by solving actual business problems from hot […]

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BizSmart Global is excited to be back for the 6th year in Lima on February 11-15, 2019 at the Roosevelt School where innovation teams create high tech product designs for hot Silicon Valley companies like Netflix, Enflux (a Microsoft Venture partner), Better World Books, Revolution Foods and Xicato. The students will hear about the Jeff Bezos space company called Blue Origin and his exciting mission to launch regular people into space. The teams will get to solve a mini-case to help solve the problems that come with launching people into space safely and efficiently. 2019 business teams will have the benefit of hearing directly from Psi Bands CEO/Founder, Romy Taormina, […]

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Talk live with Psi Bands CEO/Founder and ABC TV Program “Shark Tank” entrepreneur Romy Taormina, February 11th, the first day of the Camp BizSmart product design and business plan competition at the Roosevelt School. Ms Taormina will challenge the teams to innovate the next generation high tech Bluetooth product to give passengers a better experience when riding in Waymo, Tesla, Apple and Uber driverless cars (AV’s). To be part of this exciting entrepreneur workshop click here to apply now: Camp BizSmart’s Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Workshop In Lima,Peru The Workshop Director for the 2019 Camp BizSmart product design and business plan competition is Scott Meader, a Silicon Valley, high tech product […]

“The next generation of world shakers at Camp BizSmart 2019 will have the opportunity to design an out-of-the-box, totally new and innovative device for the cool California Coast company Psi Bands to improve the ride for people taking autonomous vehicles (AV’s) from one place to another. The device will give passengers more control over the ride, reduce car sickness, ( a major problem for riders in AV’s) and collect data to give customers for cars made by Tesla, Apple and Uber a more informed choice about which AV provides the safest, stress free, comfortable ride. Check out the Camp BizSmart 2019 Business Innovation Case which is sure to help change […]

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Summer 2017 at Camp BizSmart had seven teams who accomplished being named as the fist place team for their session. ZOG Winners, individuals who were recognized for demonstrating the most remarkable amount of Zest, Optimism and Grit from each session are also noted. Both the First place teams and ZOG Winners are listed in order of their session date and location as follows: June 12-23, 2017 operated at the Baylor School, Chattanooga, TN: Camp BizSmart Team: HeatBee, working with Company Product Innovation Partner, Hydrobee. HeatBee Team Members: CEO Trevor Popovich, CFO Chantal Nizigiymana, CMO Martin Alverez, CSO Astha Sinha, CTO Peter Fischer, CIO Nikos Verlenden, VOC Nikos Verlenden. ZOG WINNER: […]

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Today, Nate Hindman and Joe Epstein wrote a guest post for Forbes titled, Industrial Iron Man:Ekso Aims To Power Superhuman Workers. Their post starts with a quote from Max-Scheder-Bieshin, CFO of Ekso Bionics who says: “We want to create Tony Stark’s Iron Man suit.” You can read the full article here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/groupthink/2013/07/29/industrial-iron-man-ekso-aims-to-power-superhuman-workers/ Ekso bionics is one of Camp BizSmart company business case sponsors for 2013. At Camp BizSmart, students have the opportunity to work in teams to compete to create the best business product solution to meet product requirements they are given by company business case sponsors. They are inspired by great award winning companies such as Ekso Bionics who […]

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At Camp Bizsmart, we acquired many life skills that will carry us far … teamwork, confidence, speaking with eloquence, and thinking with an open mind, or as we now call it, “Thinking outside the box.”

Krish & Akash ChandaniCamp BizSmart Students

[Camp BizSmart students focus on] building a great team and being a worthy team member while pushing hard to invent the amazing solutions that will answer problems now and in the future.

Howard CharneySr. VP, Cisco Systems

Camp BizSmart has been inspiration and has helped me enhance my business and leadership skills through high school. After having been inspired to dream big and challenge myself at Camp BizSmart, I achieved my goal of becoming the first ever DECA California State Officer and Regional President from my high school.

Michaela KastelmanCEO, Winning Team – 2009

Camp BizSmart was a very unique experience for me. I learned the kinds of skills necessary to be successful in the business world. The best part was we got a chance to talk to real CEOs and VCs!

Chirag TopraniCamp BizSmart Student

Only an entrepreneurial approach – flexible, scrappy, collaborative, and unafraid of risk and failure will succeed in this new world. We owe it to our children to help them develop these skills and attitudes with programs like Camp BizSmart.